1874
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominant colour
La fruitière de la Rue de Grenelle is a 1874 by James McNeill Whistler, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This sketch shows a woman in a dark dress standing at a fruit stand. Two dogs sit nearby, one on each side of her. Behind her, shelves hold jars and bottles, and a mirror hangs on the wall above a counter with a bowl and a teapot. The artist used quick, sketchy lines to capture the scene, focusing on light and shadow rather than fine details. This style was common in Impressionism and Realism. Look up Realism next to see more works like this one.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American painter in oils and watercolor, and printmaker, active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom.
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